Princess Margaret Dies

BBC.com ^ | Saturday, 9 February, 2002, 08:56 GMT | staff

[Nea Wood]

remember, she was only human and it's not such an easy job having a sister that everyone bows down before while they're ignoring you. How would you like to be known as the "spare"?

I don't know how the Princess felt about it, but if it were me, I'd be thanking my lucky stars I didn't have to be the monarch! I read somewhere that every time Prince Charles and his two sons fly on the same plane, Prince Andrew is sweating bullets because he knows if they all die, he's next in line to the throne! LOL

[Cacique]

I will give you your due. Now when are you going to start being competetitive and start producing 50% of the technological innovations and start dominating some areas in the 21st century? Or is the West as it seems to be (the US included) going to lay down and cede the rest of the planet to the backward civilizations and despotic dictatorships like China.

[Da_Shrimp]

Or is the West as it seems to be (the US included) going to lay down and cede the rest of the planet to the backward civilizations and despotic dictatorships like China.

Let's hope not. Thanks for the 'due' bit anyroad.

Personally I'd like to see the death of the limitations imposed on free enterpise by Socialist Shite Hawks so that we can continue research/development as it should be.

[MadameAxe]

You've obviously never been to a real wake.....

Yes, I'm aware that people get drunk at wakes, though as you point out, I haven't actually been to one. I would certainly hope that the invited participants at such an event wouldn't be so boorish as to make remarks about how great it is that the deceased is dead, and drag in their friends off the street to tell them how fun it is to do so when they discover that they've offended someone.

Did you have some other point?

[xvb]

I heard she smoked 4 packs a day.

[TrueBrit]

So it's us against them. Do you include grieving English subjects as your foe, or may we don the bright armour of truth and right on America's behalf?

[JulieRNR21]

So sad that Margaret....was not allowed to marry her the love of her life... Captain Townsend....May she rest in Peace.

[MHT]

Did they use the same flag to drape her casket that they used for Di?

[itsahoot]

I guess it's my American upbringing, but I can't help thinking
anyone hanging on to royal title should be ashamed of
themselves.

Me too!

Except of course, in the case that I were.......[:<)

[Da_Shrimp]

The Royal Standard?

Yes.

[itsahoot]

I just can't take royalty seriously.

The Dallas Cowboys on the other hand are another matter....

[Cacique]

It has always been us against them. What marks a civilization from the barbarians is that we adopt and adapt, just as the Romans did. The barbarians at the gates of Rome had no interest is adopting civilization, they were interest in destroying that which they despised. Thus when the Ostrogoths and Visigoths sacked and destroyed Rome it plunged the West into the dark ages.

Today's barbarians have no interest in adopting the Western values and ideals that made our civilization great. They want to tear it down and destroy it. We also have to contend with the enemy within (the socialist social engineering rabble) that sees nothing of value in our civilization and wants to tear it down and replace it with their vision of utopia. Of course it is a failed system that history has already proven a failure. But they keep trying anyway.

A civilization survives by adapting and adopting that which works better. It is an amalgam of all that came before. Those who hang on to the sentimental past eventually languish there (as Islam has done). Institutions that cannot move forward into the future eventually ossify the world around them. One has to keep that which works and throw out that which does not. Too often we hang on to past glories instead of looking forward to attaining new ones.

Success breeds envy and hatred and the proper response is to continue success. The moment we become apologetic of who we are and where we once came we are sunk. What Westerners have to get rid of is the moribund socialist classes that continue to promote the Western guilt trip on the rest of society because being the failures that they are despise anyone else who aspires to success.

[itsahoot]

Firstly, please note that nobility is not something the people
get from G-d:

King David aside I guess, along with many others.

[mewzilla]

No, not the me generation. Of course, using your reasoning, in other words never say boo to a crown, we'd still be a colony. No thanks. All Margaret would've done by marrying Townsend was refuse to kiss her sister's royal backside, which is hardly commmitting treason, is it? She would have lived with the man she loved within the bonds of holy wedlock. How was that a threat to G.B.?

[mewzilla]

Actually, now that I think about it, what an improvement it would be for a Royal to monogamously live in holy matrimony with someone. I hope Elizabeth is now a little more careful about what she wishes for. I'd say she's helped generate enough Royal roadkill for one reign.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...Did you have some other point?..."

No. It's the same old point--You can't get to heaven with a cob up your derriere--as all stiffs at all wakes understand.

Mourning is an art. Not everyone is blessed....

[itsahoot]

Firstly, please note that nobility is not something the people
get from G-d:

The real problem with Kings is....

Is 8 KJV

4 ¶ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

[itsahoot]

RISC technology has been in dvelopment simultaneously both here and alsewhere. However, it has yet to show great promise in general applications, though some RISC architecture is being used in the latest batches of CPU's. It has yet to break through in consuler oriented PC's and applications.

Gee I guess IBM has wasted a lot of time on their RS series of Big Iron Servers. Not to mention My Macintosh.

[MadameAxe]

You can't get to heaven with a cob up your derriere--as all stiffs at all wakes understand.

You're implying this of me? How absolutely charming.

[itsahoot]

Let's get things straight.

Let's do....It was Al Gore, get it Al Gore :)